Have you ever seen first digital camera? Here it is:
It was developed by Kodak engineer Steve Sasson in December 1975. It was capable of making black/white photos, had 0.01 Megapixel and taking picture took him about 23 seconds. Oh, and it stored your photos on simple magnetic tape, like for Walkman. And now you have a lot better device in your pocket size cell phone, nice.
I’ve found set of old Budweiser advertising posters and among them was this one:
If you don’t know who was Kosciusko ask WikipediaWell, it’s a little shame that Polish hero was used for advertising such beer as Bud. I’m talking about American Budweiser which is not drinkable, not Czech one which is very good. America has definitively got good beers, but Bud is not one of them.
Another movie added to my to-watch list. Looks like story is pretty stupid and naive, but it would be smashing with special effects and action. And Quaid is playing there, one of my favorite actors. Although scene with ice cream man is one the dumbest I’ve ever seen. Fortunately rest of “monsters” look good, so I’ll definitively give it a try. Oh, and grandma is awesome!
For about a month I was receiving notification that there is service pack 2 available for my Office 2007 package via Windows Update. So I’ve chosen to install it, but it always returned error when installing. Today I’ve decided that it’s about time to update my Office, so I’ve navigated to MS site and downloaded update manually. Started installation and boom, error again! But then something came to my mind, “wait a minute, I have English version of Vista, but Polish version of Office!
Good news to all people for whom being private in Internet counts. Some Netherlands based company started to provide free, that’s right completely free, VPN service. It’s enough to register and you can enjoy 128-bit encryption over your Internet connection which would gain you some privacy. You don’t have to install any software, just configure VPN connection in your system. Of course as it’s new and it’s free be careful, because all your Internet traffic would go through their servers first.
Quick tip of the day. If you want to install Google Desktop on Vista 64 bit do as follows:
Click Start menu -> Run or tap Windows sign and “r” at once on keyboard. Type “cmd” and press Enter. Navigate to folder which contains GoogleDesktopSetup.exe (Google Desktop installer). Type GoogleDesktopSetup.exe /force That’s it! Your installation was just started, proceed with the wizard to setup application. Enjoy!
UPDATE:
Now Google Desktop supports 64bit operating systems!
There is a little thunder on the net about add-on for Firefox called Microsoft .Net Framework Assistant 1.0 which was installed automatically via Windows Update. There are voices against as well as the ones which try to defend it. Some people even think that it’s some danger, like malware and stuff. Well, it isn’t. This new add-on will just let Firefox users install software using ClickOnce service, which basically lets you install apps directly from browser and provides you with more security as software is not interfering your operating system.
Must start saving money. When this baby would hit the European stores… It would be mine!
Screw you Mac Air!
Let me teach you what I’ve learned lately. DIY = Do It Yourself
There is new service called Wolfram which is being called by some people “the search engine”. But it’s not, it’s more like question/answer service, but using software instead of other humans to answer. For instance if you would look for “zamosc” (my hometown) in Google y0u’ll find links to several websites with word “zamosc” on it. But if you will search for the same phrase in Wolfram then you would receive data like population, current weather and so on.